Gradually, spy-hopping humpbacks viewing whaling vessels became mating whales embracing in a double spy-hop.

Thirty years old when the song came out, Lauper was playacting at being a girl — and the ultimate girl, at that — with her Betty Boop voice and crazy dress-up outfits.

This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.

All the megalopoli of the future—in this country and elsewhere—will transcend national boundaries in many ways.